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Re:Redcar: Textmate-ish programmer’s editor for Gnome with b... by lallysingh on Saturday March 21, 2009 @01:01PM (#526308)
As a follower of Emacs (I'm having a golden GNU built as an idol for the office), I have to say a good part of the problem is knowing where to go for docs. There's still a good bit of oral history to these editors, even if a lot of that is available online.

The last emacs book was published quite some time ago, and no matter how much of it is still valid, it's just not up to par with providing people with the same level of familiarity and desired features as one of the new ones. At work, we're all using gvim or emacs, but most are aching for eclipse or visual studio.

I try to mention ctags to them and they just stare at me blankly. I suspect the field has started to move rather quickly in the UI and lingual diversity fronts, and it's time editors need to diversify as well.

Still, lisp (or the bastard stepchild, emacs lisp) is a very good language for an editor. It's a shame it's the only place I use it.

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Re:Redcar: Textmate-ish programmer’s editor for Gnome with b... by xal on Saturday March 21, 2009 @02:05PM (#526372)
No the problem is needing docs. Emacs is software out of a different age of computing where it was not considered a dick move to make people read documentation for changing the color scheme. These times are over but people who got used to it or have acquired mastery of the editor obviously do not feel the pain in that.

I used emacs for 10 years and know lisp quite well but I'm a textmate user now. There are a lot of us.

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